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UK Charity Invest in ME Research
@investinmeresearch.bsky.social
An independent UK charity finding, funding, facilitating biomedical research into ME and providing better education and awareness of this disease in UK & Europe
(charity nr. 1153730)
www.investinme.org
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🎉 #YEVienna2025 has officially begun!
We’re excited to welcome everyone to Vienna for two days of ME/CFS research, collaboration, and new connections.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Single cell epigenomic profiling identifies a distinct classical monocyte subset driving inflammation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) 4815 url: academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Research Scientist to undertake research projects which advance our understanding of the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its role in ageing 🧠

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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⏳ Just 1 day to go until #YEVienna2025!

Today we’re highlighting Dr Esra Güç ✨
She’ll speak on “Unraveling T Cell Dysfunction in ME/CFS: Science and Career Insights”, sharing both scientific perspectives and her career journey.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#YEVienna2025 starts tomorrow!

Today we’re highlighting the ME/CFS Lab Rotation Programme with Dr Grace Liu ✨
She’ll introduce funding and rotation opportunities for young ME/CFS researchers — and attendees will also have the chance to speak directly with potential host PIs during the workshop.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
To encourage/facilitate participation of young European researchers IiMER has awarded accommodation grants for the next @youngemerg.bsky.social International ME Workshop in #Vienna
Details of the awardees
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#mecfs #research #YEVienna2025 @euromeresearch.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/CFS following exertion - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics www.mcponline.org/article/S153...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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⏳ The #YEVienna2025 workshop is happening next week!

We’re kicking off our speaker highlights with Dr Kathryn Hoffmann ✨
Her talk, “ME/CFS in Social Sciences”, will explore ME/CFS in primary care and public health through the lens of social sciences — and why this approach is so important.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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⏳ The #YEVienna2025 workshop is happening next week!

Next up in our speaker highlights is Dr Sussane Meyer ✨

Her talk, “Health economic perspective on Long COVID”, will look at how Long COVID affects healthcare systems and why its economic impact matters.
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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⏳ Just one week to go until #YEVienna2025!

Today’s speaker highlight: Dr Ana Weidenauer ✨

She’ll present on innovative therapies for Long Covid and ME/CFS, drawing on her clinical work at Vienna General Hospital.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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⏳ The #YEVienna2025 workshop is happening next week!

Next up in our speaker highlights is Dr Eva Untersmayer-Eisenhuber ✨

She’ll present “From basic research to clinical application: translation of interdisciplinary research in ME/CFS”.
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Excited for our new paper!
We developed a sensitive NanoLuc system to track bacterial extracellular vesicles in vivo—and found that gut-microbe derived vesicles can reach multiple organs, including the brain - delivering ACTIVE protein components.

#Microbiome

www.oaepublish.com/articles/evc...
Special delivery - extracellular vesicles released by commensal gut bacteria deliver bioactive protein to distal organs
Aim: This study aims to investigate how the gut microbiota communicates with the host via bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEVs), given that direct contact between microbes and the healthy intestinal...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘆𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗺𝘆𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀/𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲: 𝗔 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗹𝗲?
by Krishani Dinali Perera (IiMER LunaNova fellow) and Paige Cameron (IiMER summer student) et al
www.mdpi.com/3595296
#mecfs #LunaNova #research @quadraminstitute.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Having learnt of the Westminster Hall debate taking place on 19 November the charity forwarded these briefing notes to the MP tabling the debate
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#mecfs #research #WestminsterHall #HealthPolicy
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Serbia: International Post-covid and ME Conference
14 November 2025
at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Dedinje", Belgrade, Serbia
www.europeanmealliance.org/events/serbi...
#mecfs #research #LongCovid
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Integrated immune, hormonal, and transcriptomic profiling reveals sex-specific dysregulation in long COVID patients with ME/CFS: Cell Reports Medicine www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Integrated immune, hormonal, and transcriptomic profiling reveals sex-specific dysregulation in long COVID patients with ME/CFS
Shahbaz et al. find that female long COVID patients with ME/CFS exhibit heightened inflammation, altered hematopoiesis, disrupted hormone levels, and neuroinflammatory gene signatures. In parallel, ou...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A hidden confounder for microbiome studies: medications used years before sample collection | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A hidden confounder for microbiome studies: medications used years before sample collection | mSystems
This is the first study using detailed retrospective medication usage data from electronic health records to systematically assess the long-term effects of medication usage on the gut microbiome. We i...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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📽️ Earlier this year three undergraduate students spent six weeks working with us funded by @investinmeresearch.bsky.social 🔬

Two of the students, Paige and Mya, talk about their experience of their placements ⤵️
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Invest in ME summer students at the Quadram Institute 2025
Earlier this year three undergraduate students spent six weeks working at the Quadram Institute, funded by the charity Invest in ME Research. These bursaries were designed to support undergraduate…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Invest in ME Research Summer Student Bursaries 2025 - Addendum
The IiMER bursaries offered hands-on experience in cutting-edge research focusing on ME

We have now added Tay's experiences
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#research #MedEd #mecfs #InvestinMEresearch
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
November in❤️ienna!

In person registration deadline: 31 October
for next 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙂 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙀 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥
27-28 November
The European network for young/ECRs for #mecfs youngemerg.com/yemerg06v.sh... #research #longcovid #Vienna @youngemerg.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Dr. Cathal Morgan WHO Europe Human Resources for Health Programme and Gracemarie Bricalli, EMEA, at #RC75CPH - EMEA collaborating with @WHO_Europe to improve the lives of people with #MECFS

Cathal made this support video for us last year
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October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This week EMEA is participating in 𝟳𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 in Copenhagen with ‘ official Non-State Actor accredited’ status
Last year EMEA met with Dr Hans Kluge WHO Regional Director for Europe, to discuss ME and EMEA's plans and strategy euro-me.org/emea-news-wh...
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𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗔 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟳𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 Organised for 28–30 October 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark EMEA will be putting forward statements to th...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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EMEA will be putting forward statements to the congress to improve things for ME.
Here Dr Hans Kluge welcomed EMEA chairperson Gracemarie Bricalli
#mecfs
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM